Zelensky's ex-press secretary: Yermak practices magic

Yermak and Zelensky. Photo: eurotopics

Zelensky's ex-press secretary, Yulia Mendel, published a detailed material with accusations against former head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, claiming that he practices magical rituals and uses the services of magicians.

Mendel said that her first suspicions arose as far back as 2019, when Yermak served as an advisor to the President. After a briefing at the Presidential Office, one of the journalists ran not after Zelensky but after Yermak with a question to the camera: “What were you doing at the cemetery with [name not disclosed]?” According to Mendel, the journalist repeated the question several times, but Yermak did not answer, and the story was never published.

In 2020, when Yermak was already heading the Office of President (OP), one of the ministers approached Mendel with information that the OP head was practicing magic. The minister did not go into details, but according to the former press secretary, he was very frightened.

In 2023, a representative of one of the key agencies told Mendel that Yermak had brought magicians from Israel, Georgia, and one of the Latin American countries to conduct magical rituals.

In 2024, a person from the "esoteric sphere" shared with Mendel details of the alleged practices. According to him, Yermak's magicians burn certain herbs, collect water from corpses, and make dolls that he keeps in a special box. Supposedly, the “dead themselves” are already inside this particular box.

Mendel noted that now law enforcers and even MPs are talking about this publicly, particularly Yaroslav Zhelezniak.

The former press secretary drew a parallel with a story that a European financier from an international organization once told her. It was about the king of an African country who consulted tree spirits on state matters, once refused to allow a European investor to build a factory so as not to anger the spirit of the river, and also called the national bank to dictate which figures for inflation and GDP should be entered into the reports.

“The comparisons are obvious,” Mendel believes. “Today, when the country is without heat, electricity, and without basic necessities, we can only laugh at this magical ‘politics’ if we have strength for this.”

At the end of the publication, Mendel noted that Yermak is "far from the only one" in Ukrainian politics who practices magical rituals.

She concluded her text with an appeal to Yermak: "Andriy, when you read this, think that any of your decisions and actions will now be mirrored back to you. And God is stronger. He was. He is. And always will be. You should have chosen the light side from the very beginning».

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that, according to an ex-MP, during searches at Yermak's place they found a voodoo doll and other occult items.

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